Ms. Le Pen favors dropping
out of the euro currency, and the markets aren't taking any chances.
Greece could be forced
out of the euro currency by the end of the year, predicts UKIP's leader Nigel Farage.
Not exact matches
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande, the
euro zone's most powerful leaders, said Athens must move quickly if it wants to secure a cash - for - reform deal with creditors and avoid crashing
out of the single
currency.
In fact the creation
of the
euro largely wiped
out local
currency centers and most
of the market actually migrated
out of the
euro zone and into London.
If the talks fail and Greece fails to pay its way, one possible — and feared — outcome could be the country being forced
out of the
euro zone and into adopting its own
currency.
While China is usually singled
out for its policies, other countries have behaved more irresponsibly, most notably rich Germany, whose surpluses, the largest in history, were built primarily on an undervalued
currency, after the creation
of the
euro, and on weak wage growth, after the 2003 — 05 labor reforms.
The Canadian dollar accounts for only 2.2 per cent
of total foreign
currency trade flow in a given day, according to the latest major trade volume report put
out by the Bank for International Settlements, whereas the U.S. dollar comprises 45.1 per cent and the
euro 19.4 per cent.
In sum, the U.S. payments deficit and central bank movements
out of the dollar, aggravated by U.S. military activity in Iraq and other countries, may indeed trigger a shift
of international
currency holdings into
euros.
Hundreds
of billions
of dollars,
euros and sterling worth
of yen were borrowed and duly converted into foreign
currencies to lend
out at a markup.
Finally, I suspect many investors will use these hedged international stock funds
out of a belief that they know how the dollar will do against
currencies like the
euro.
«But if governments continue to just print money like crazy, devaluing the
currencies all around the world, people are figuring it
out real quick — with bitcoin that sort
of thing can't happen and people are going to just flood to want to use bitcoin instead
of dollars or
euros or yen.»
- Altice said on Nov. 2 it generated 5.8 billion
euros of revenue in the three months to the end
of September, up 0.3 percent from a year earlier after stripping
out the effects
of currency movements.
Many investors also like the idea
of getting into and
out of cryptocurrency trades and at the end
of the day having just a good old fiat
currency like dollars or
euros on their accounts.
European Central Lender board member floats the concept
of an «IOU» method to pay civil servants if nation operates
out of euros & #thirteen & #thirteen & # 13 & #thirteen & # 13 Photo: bloomberg & # 13 & # 13 Greece could commence employing a «parallel
currency» to pay
out its civil servants if it runs
out of...
«The
euro is far from home and dry: Greece and Spain could still be eased
out of the
currency,» he adds.
Worse still, given the wrangles over Scotland's future
currency, the decision by both campaigns to simply stare each other down on the retention (or otherwise)
of sterling has ruled
out important discussion
of the alternatives — from a free - floating «Scot #» or
currency peg, to union with sterling or the
euro.
Unlike Greece, the U.S. borrows in its own national
currency: whereas the Greek government can run
out of euros, the U.S. government can not really run
out of dollars as long as the Federal Reserve provides them.
A case in point is the Federal Constitutional Court's OMT - decision that has, as Justice Lübbe - Wolff pointed
out in her minority opinion, «incalculable consequences for the operating
currency of the
euro zone and the national economies depending on it».
Bitcoin surged by as much as 7 percent on Tuesday and was on track for its longest winning streak in 18 months, as concerns that Greece could tumble
out of the
euro drove speculators and Greek depositors into the decentralized digital
currency.
While not as extreme as banning cash, clamping down on moving funds
out of the country (China) and hyperinflation (Venezuela and much
of Africa) leaves citizens without the ability to buy
euros or USD looking for anything that will depreciate slower than its
currency.